John J. Puderer
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Songwriter
John J. Puderer was a New Orleans sheet-music publisher and proprietor of the Music Shop who, with composer Robert Hoffman, wrote the lyric to “I’m Alabama Bound” (1909). The song became one of the most-covered American railroad songs of the early twentieth century after Jelly Roll Morton, Trixie Smith, Charlie Poole, and Lead Belly all recorded reworkings under varying titles.
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- Operated the Music Shop in New Orleans, a sheet-music publishing house active in the first decade of the twentieth century.
- Wrote the lyric to “I’m Alabama Bound” (also published as “The Alabama Blues”), set to Robert Hoffman’s ragtime two-step.
- The song was first published by Robert Ebberman of New Orleans in 1909.
- Prince’s Band cut the first commercial recording on Columbia in November 1909.
- The song has since been recorded by Jelly Roll Morton, Trixie Smith, Charlie Poole, Lead Belly, Doc Watson, and many other country, blues, and folk acts.
